Check out the creative sb audigy (sp probably) zs notebook soundcard. If your laptop has a pc card slot it will work just fine. It has a cable with the 3 necessary jacks for surround sound goodness. I don't think it's possible to get an sinternal oundcard replacement as it'd be difficult to find a way to expose a headphone jack (also it'd likely be very difficult to impossible to rewire the internal speaker to use the new card). The audigy zx notebook is awesome. I don't know if it's still in production but it was about $90 or so. My Realtak AC97 could record stereo mix but couldn't record both stereo mix and line-in/microphone at the same time under XP. I haven't gotten the intel/realtek (?) hd audio line-in/internal mic working under linux. Perhaps it is just a crappy soundcard.
On 3/12/09, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yohandy, > > Yohandy Asked: > first, is there a fix > for this issue I'm having? is it my soundcard acting up, or is it Vista > itself? > > Tom Says: > Well, you aren't the first person who has had issues with that specific > brand and model of sound card. I've basically heard those sound cards > are trouble no matter if you are using XP, Vista, or Windows 7. i don't > have one myself, but the word is those sound cards have technical > issues. My best educated guess is it is your sound card not Vista. > > Yohandy Said: > I've heard many rumors that vista doesn't support line-in and that it > also lacks > the ability to record both microphone output and stereo mix, so I'd > like confirmation > from people using other cards with vista. > > Tom Says: > Well, it does and it doesn't. It really depends on what sound card you > have, if the Vista drivers supports those features, and if you enable > those mixer settings in the control panel. I can say first hand it is a > serious pain to get working under Vista, because it isn't as easy to get > setup as it was under XP. I'm unhappy to say it is just as bad with > Windows 7 Beta. > However, I can confirm the stereo mix still works under Vista with the > right sound card. it does work if your sound card supports it, and if > you get Vista setup correctly. As i said before it isn't as easy to get > correctly setup as XP. > > Yohandy Asked: > and second, do you guys know if this card > supports surround sound? Thomas, I know you said the headphones have 3 > jacks you > can plug into the card. only problem here is I only have a headphone > jack, and another > jack to the left which I presume is for the microphone. I'm using an > internal mic. > > Tom Says: > Well, since i don't know the specific model, serial number, etc of your > card I can't look it up and give you an absolute answer. However, what I > can tell you is that it does not have the correct outputs to do anything > remotely like surround sound using headphones or a set of 5.1 surround > sound speakers. So I'm guessing no. > The desktop I am sitting at now has a creative Labs Soundblaster Audegy > 2 card installed. It has a mic jack, a line-in jack, and then three > output jacks. They are labeled front, center, and rear. If I am using a > set of 5.1 surround sound speakers or headphones I plug the three > headphone inputs into these three jacks on the sound card. I doubt > plugging only one input into a headphone jack would reproduce a full 5.1 > surround sound effect. > > Yohandy Said: > btw. If Vista's the culprit, then I'll most likely uninstall it since > all these > audio problems are really getting on my nerves. > > Tom Says: > Well, all i can say is I have been running Vista successfully since > March 2007 and I really haven't had much problems with the OS myself > audio or otherwise. I've recorded the Mysteries of the Ancients game > trailers using a Windos Vista system so I know for certain I can record > using stereo mix obviously. However, I can say I've got stereo mix > working on my desktop, the computer with the Audegy card, but it won't > work on my laptop which has a Realtek AC-97 card in it. So it is the > sound card not Vista being the problem there. > HTH > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
